exquisite corpse: 60 artists, 20 pieces, 1 show

Derived from a parlor game (draw the head, fold the paper with only a glimpse of what is present, hand it off to the next person to conceive a middle region, fold and pass for the entails and the end), in the grand tradition of Surrealism, these images rely on chance, the meeting of sewing machine and Bible, intestine and giraffe, the meeting of disparate minds (ranging from Copenhagen to Saint Claire Shores)on a scrufty page. The show is curated by Lydia Diemer, MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of Iowa.

NATHAN MCKEE, MATT CLARK, NEVA SILLS
2003